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Offline Frog

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« on: November 18, 2012, 09:44:53 AM »
Any of you have experience with this? Use it now?

My wife has expressed an interest in this for some time, so it seems like a natural Christmas gift if, and here's the big if...if it really does work, and work better than the version that I tried ten or so years back.
She would use it mostly for email, but even that could be a sticking point because I see in it's description that it is configured to work with Hot mail and G-mail, but no mention of Yahoo (which she uses mostly), or "real" email.
When they say "work", is that just for commands and similar actions other than the actual body of text, so spoken text works in anything, or is there a compatibility issue that goes deeper?

It also mentions compatibility with all major browsers so maybe I can start using it here and get really wordy. Or really, really, really wordy like I have seen from someone else reputed to use this program! lol!

The second part of the question is will the home version suffice? It is $100 bucks less, less than half of the premium version. (about $75 vs. $175)
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Offline tpitman

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Re: Dragon Speech Software
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2012, 11:58:41 AM »
You want to know if it works as well as this?  :P

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Offline virgil427

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Re: Dragon Speech Software
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2012, 06:19:03 PM »
Frog, I know one person that uses it, they like it, I looked into getting it myself and put it off for now.

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« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2012, 08:20:28 PM »
I don't know how well dragon speak works. I do know that the speech to text function on iPhones and the Macintosh that is built-in works great.
As a matter of fact most of my postings to this form are inputted this way, just like this one!
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« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2012, 08:21:55 PM »
I would also like to point out that this has made replying to emails significantly faster and easier. One thing that you do need to get used to is speaking the punctuation that you need.

The only downside is I feel like an idiot when other people are around and I'm doing this :-)
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Re: Dragon Speech Software
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2012, 09:28:17 PM »
I guess that she will just need to really enunciate "for-umm "so it doesn't think she said "form". LOL!
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« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2012, 09:33:30 PM »
Haha good catch :) helps to proof read when you're done!
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